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Kooyeen Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Me too

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00I know that answering 01i01b00"Me too"02b02i00 when someone says 01i01b00"I love you"02b02i00 or 01i01b00"Nice to meet you"02b02i00 is not idiomatic, because it would sound like "I love myself too" or "Nice to meet myself too".02br
00So I was wondering about these kinds of sentences:02br
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01i00I washed my car today.02br
00I got my hair cut.02br
00I got myself a new pair of pants.02br
00I hate myself.02br
00I'll give you a gift.02br
00I really love my children.02i02br
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00Is answering 01i01b00Me too02b02i00 idiomatic for those? If so, it would be strange... just like you would take it to mean "I love myself too", you would get "I washed your car too", "I love your children too", "I'll give myself a gift too", "I got your hair cut too"...02br
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00I'm so confused! Thanks 050010id1
  

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"02br 02br 00The "I love you" "Me too" is sometimes made fun of on sitcoms - usually the girls says "I love you" to the guy, who is on the phone surrounded by his buddies, and rather than say "I love you too" back to her, he will mumble "me too" - which usualy makes her go on a tirade about how he's not man enough to say he loves her in front of his friends, etc. )02br 02br 00The "I hate myself" one would give me pause - I can't imagine hearing someone say that and not react differently than saying "Well, I hate myself too" and the "me too" does sound like you hate that person too. I'm not sure why it's different from the others.

— BarbaraPA

  • "02br 02br 00The "I love you" "Me too" is sometimes made fun of on sitcoms - usually the girls says "I love you" to the guy, who is on the phone surrounded by his buddies, and rather than say "I love you too" back to her, he will mumble "me too" - which usualy makes her go on a tirade about how he's not man enough to say he loves her in front of his friends, etc.
  • )02br 02br 00The "I hate myself" one would give me pause - I can't imagine hearing someone say that and not react differently than saying "Well, I hate myself too" and the "me too" does sound like you hate that person too.
  • I'm not sure why it's different from the others.
  • " As if that type of explanation was really needed?
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0Actually, K, it's quite idiomatic, even in your first examples, although the person may scramble to say "I mean, it was nice to meet you as well!"02br
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00The "I love you" "Me too" is sometimes made fun of on sitcoms - usually the girls says "I love you" to the guy, who is on the phone surrounded by his buddies, and rather than say "I love you too" back to her, he will mu
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0 Hmm, very interesting. Thanks a lot.02br
00It seems it's the context that counts, rather than the grammar structure, when we consider "me too" as not idiomatic. Yes, for "I hate myself", it would not sound good to me too.02br
00The truth is that I was told (and I read about this on many parts of the net too) that "me too" is completely inappropriate and unidiomatic as a
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0"Nice to meet you" "Same here"02br
00"I love you" "Same here"02br
00 All your other choices seem OK with "Me too" as the response 01u00except02u00 "I'll give you a gift" ("I'll give you one too.")02br
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0As I think about this just a bit more, it seems inappropriate in which manners are at stake. "Nice to meet you" is simply a courtesy - it's not really conveying information. So you need to extend the same courtesy (It was nice meeting you too!) and not use the same type of pattern of an "I like ice cream" "Me too" kind of info exchange.0-
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0 Ah! That must be the reason, yeah. That explains why "me too" is not a good reply to "I love you", but it is when we reply to "I got my hair cut" or "I'll give you something".02br
00Thank you so much. 050010id1
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0Hi,02br
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00In case it's not clear from the above comments, please note this.02br
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01i00Mary: I love you.02i02br
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01i00Tom: Me, too.02i02br
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00Tom is saying that he (Tom) also loves Tom, in other words that he loves himself. 05002br
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00However,
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10That explains why "me too" is not a good reply to "I love you", but it is when we reply to "I got my hair cut" or "I'll give you something".12blockquote
10 I really don't think it works for 01i00I'll give you something02i00, though it does work for 01i00I'll gi
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0 Ooops, I hadn't seen your first reply Jim. Well, at this point, it seems to me that whether it sounds ok or not depends on a lot of things, context included. In cases like "I love you", it is so unlikely to sound good that we might say it's "wrong", but in other cases it depends. And it's always potentially ambiguous... even with a good context, some jokes might be possible... 01i00
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yes me 2, I sent an email to my lover 2, I love you x his reply, me 2 *** and he probably does ,and after goes on holiday to India with his family, emailing me , saying he'll miss me so much. this after 6 mnths of meeting. *** I'm confused.

p.s have you managed to find out if he really does
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KooyeenHi,
I know that answering "Me too" when someone says "I love you" or "Nice to meet you" is not idiomatic, because it would sound like "I love myself too" or "Nice to meet myself too".
So I was wondering about these kinds of sentences:


hey,

Just double checking...so the pro
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